“This is the first paper ever published in California…The principles that govern us in conducting can be be set forth in a few words…we shall urge the organization of interior defences sufficient to protect the property of citizens from the depredations of the wild Indians.”

Captain Fauntleroy, Company A, California Dragoons, stationed at San Juan “being informed of some depredation having been committed by some wild Indians, left his quarters with a detachment of twenty men…”

“Return of the Expedition Under the Charge of Purser James A.Watmough, from the California Mountains.” The Californian, September 26, 1846: p. 1, col. 1. California Digital Newspaper Collection, Center for Bibliographic Studies and Research, University of California, Riverside, http://cdnc.ucr.edu/.

A company of 40 men reached San Jose after a two week campaign killing and wounding several Indians “in the various skirmishes at the Indian camps”

Capt.Montgomery, commandant of the northern district issued a proclamation: “It having come to the attention of the Commander-in-Chief of this district, that persons have been and still are impressing Indians and holding to service, Indians against their will, without any legal contract, and without a due regard to their rights as freemen where not under legal contract for service…”